I have installed libavformat.so.60 via distro package libavformat-extra but audacity complaints it can't find it, even if I explicitly select the file via locate library it doesn't work ...

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Audacity, the venerable and much loved open source audio editor, has a 2.0 release out (as of March 13) in versions for OS X, Windows and GNU/Linux. Here's a rundown of what has changed: Many effects ...